Before Treatment photograph taken at the Williamstown Art Conservation Center prior to 2015 cleaning.
During Treatment photograph taken at the Williamstown Art Conservation Center prior to 2015 cleaning.
Gerrit Dou
Dutch, 1613–1675
Girl at a Window
c.1655
| Medium | oil on panel |
| Dimensions | 10 9/16 × 7 1/2 in. (26.9 × 19 cm) Frame: 15 1/8 × 12 3/16 × 1 7/8 in. (38.4 × 31 × 4.8 cm) |
| Object Number | 1955.716 |
| Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955 |
| Status | On View |
Image Caption
Gerrit Dou, Girl at a Window, c.1655, oil on panel. Clark Art Institute, 1955.716
Provenance
Possibly Cornelis Wittert van Valkenburg (his sale, Rotterdam, 11 April 1731, no. 26); (sale, Amsterdam, 9 April 1734, no. 5); Robert de Neuville, Leiden (his sale, Leiden, 15 March 1736, no. 1); L. B. Coclers, Amsterdam (his sale, Amsterdam, 7 August 1811;) J. Goll van Frankenstein, Amsterdam (by 1833); J.F. van Lennep, Amsterdam (by 1872, until at least 1890); Messchert van Vollenhoven, Amsterdam (his sale, Amsterdam, 29 March 1892, no. 2, sold to Wertheimer); [Asher Wertheimer, London, 1892-1893, sold to Thomas, May 1893]*; George C. Thomas, Philadelphia; George C. Thomas, Jr., New York, his son, by descent (1909-1919); [M. Knoedler & Co., New York, sold to Clark in 1922]; Robert Sterling Clark, purchased 1 June 1922; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955. *provenance relating to second version or replica of Clark painting: [Sedelmeyer Gallery, Paris; sold to Wassermann]; Max Wassermann, Paris (by 1898, d. 1932), until at least 1913.
